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Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation provides information technology (IT), consulting, and business process outsourcing services worldwide. The company operates through four segments: Financial Services; Healthcare; Manufacturing, Retail, and Logistics; and Other. It offers consulting and technology services, such as IT strategy, program management, operations improvement, strategy, and business consulting services; and application design and development, systems integration, and enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management implementation services. It also provides enterprise information management services, such strategic, advisory, and management consulting; enterprise data management; descriptive analytics/ business intelligence; strategic corporate performance management; and packaged analytics services, as well as big data services that assist clients in managing and deriving actionable insights from the explosion in the volume, variety, velocity, and complexity of data. In addition, the company offers application testing services, as well as helps its clients in adapting social, mobile, analytics, and cloudbased technologies to their businesses. Further, it provides outsourcing services,

such as application maintenance services; IT infrastructure services; and business and knowledge process outsourcing services, such as clinical data management, pharmacy vigilance, equity research support, commercial operations, and order management. It serves financial institutions, including banks, investment firms, and insurance companies; healthcare and life sciences companies; companies operating in industrial, automotive, process logistics, and retailing sub-sectors; communications service providers; information, media, and entertainment companies; independent software vendors, technology equipment manufacturers, and online service providers. Cognizant Technology Solutions was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey.

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Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation

Type Traded as

Public NASDAQ: CTSH NASDAQ-100 Component S&P 500 Component

Industry Predecessor(s) Founded Founder(s) Headquarters

IT services, IT consulting Dun & Bradstreet January 26, 1994 Kumar Mahadeva Teaneck, New Jersey,United States

Area served Key people

Worldwide John E. Klein (Chairman) Francisco D'Souza (CEO)

Services

IT, business consulting and outsourcing services

Acquisitions Company acquired

Country

Date

Business

btconsult GmbH [process and technology consulting, SAP]; C:1 Solutions GmbH [consulting and enterprise solutions: SAP, BPM, ECM, ERM]; psc Management C1 group (6 companies) Germany December Consulting GmbH [process 2012 and technology consulting]; C:1 SetCon GmbH [software engineering and testing]; Enterprise Services AG [a Swiss company focused on process and IT consulting]; C:1 Holding GmbH

Zaffera

USA

September 2011

SAP Consulting

Core Logic India

India

July 2011 Mortgage processing

Company acquired

Country

Date

Business

Consulting related to the Galileo Performance France June 2010 measurement, management and continuous optimization of IT system performance

PIPC Group

UK

May 2010

Program & Project Management Consulting

UBS India Service Center

India

October 2009

Business process outsourcing, industry research

Pepperweed Advisors

8 US September 2009

Business Consulting, Program Management

Consulting, implementation Active Intelligence February 2009 and support services for Oracle Retail Merchandising, Planning and Optimization suite

Canada

Company acquired

Country

Date

Business

Strategic Vision Consulting

Business Consulting for US June 2008 media and entertainment companies

16 marketRx US November 2007

Life Sciences Analytics, healthcare KPO

AimNet

US

September 2006

IT infrastructure services

Fathom Consulting

Canada

April 2005

Telecom & Automotive IT Services

Ygyan Consulting

India

February 2004

SAP consulting

Infopulse

December Netherlands 2003

IT services

Aces

US

April

Siebel CRM consulting

Company acquired International

Country

Date

Business

2003

American Express Travelrelated Services account from Silverline Technologies US Sep 2002 Financial services

UnitedHealthcare Ireland Limited

Healthcare services (a Ireland June 2002 subsidiary of the UnitedHealth Group)

Services Cognizant provides information technology, consulting and BPO services. These include business & technology consulting, systems integration, application development & maintenance, IT infrastructure services, analytics, business intelligence, data warehousing, CRM, supply chain management, engineering & manufacturing Solutions, ERP, R&D outsourcing, and testing solutions. In 2011, the company's revenue from IT services was split roughly evenly between application development and application maintenance. Its business process

outsourcing portfolio leans towards "higher-end" services i.e., work that involves domain knowledge and skills, such as legal services or healthcare claims processing rather than simple voice-based support services. In the 2012 earnings announcements, the CEO Frank D'Souza categorized the company's service offerings in three groups: Horizon 1 (application development and maintenance),Horizon 2 (BPO, IT Infrastructure Services & business consulting) and Horizon 3 ("SMAC" - Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud). As of September 2012, the Horizon 1 services accounted for over 75% of the company's revenues, and Horizon 2 services about 20%.

COMPETITORS Direct Competitor Comparison CTSH Market Cap: Employees: Qtrly Rev Growth (yoy): Revenue (ttm): Gross Margin (ttm): 0.41 0.35 N/A 0.31 8.02B 7.64B 11.53B1 7.16B 0.20 0.14 N/A 0.07 25.05B 164,300 INFY 27.74B 157,263 PVT1 N/A 276,1961 WIT 25.26B 130,000

EBITDA (ttm): Operating Margin (ttm): Net Income (ttm): EPS (ttm): P/E (ttm): PEG (5 yr expected): P/S (ttm):

1.67B

2.12B

N/A

1.49B

0.19

0.25

N/A

0.18

1.14B 3.75 22.16 1.11 3.09

1.73B 3.02 16.08 1.21 3.60

2.55B1 N/A N/A N/A N/A

1.19B 0.51 20.20 1.78 3.51

INFY = Infosys Ltd. Pvt1 = Tata Consultancy Services Limited WIT = Wipro Ltd.
1

= As of 2013

Why Cognizant? Cognizant partners with the worlds premier consumer goods manufacturers, creating innovative solutions and strategies that keep them price-competitive, category-leading and consumer-savvy. Our expertise spans a wide gamut, from demand-driven supply chains, to revenue-creating trade promotion management

systems, to analytics systems and mobility solutions that anticipate and serve everchanging customer needs. Segments We Serve

Consumer Durables Streamline demand-driven operations, optimize costs and create more powerful brands with our deep domain knowledge and prove tools and techniques. Footwear & Apparel: Rely on Cognizant insights and experience to optimize consumer sourcing execution and label management-and achieve continuous business performance improvements. Food & Beverage: Respond rapidly to the industry's changing customers, supply chain and technology dynamics by leveraging our experience serving the world's largest companies. Home & Personal Care: Cognizant helps to overcome product commoditization, spiraling R&D budgets and ever-changing consumer demographics.